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Marcia
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If we’d been in a café instead of a tearoom, I would have opted for two cold beers—that was what the weather and the boiled peanuts called for.3 Alas, alas! As women, the inability to simply waltz into a café was yet another inconvenience we had to endure. When would such inconveniences come to an end?
— Mar 13, 2026 11:39AM
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Marcia
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a novel is a piece of amber, one that coagulates both the “real” past and the “made-up” ideals. It is something that can be visited again and again in its unparalleled beauty.
— 13 hours, 58 min ago
Marcia
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Oh? So Aoyama-sensei and Ō-san are friends. You must excuse me, for I never perceived this from what I have witnessed of your interactions.
— 17 hours, 45 min ago
Marcia
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Our arms were linked and our footsteps were a dance. The night wind tousled our hair.
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Marcia
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“Chi-chan, are you making fun of me?”
“Oh dear. And if I am?”
“Hmph …”
“If I am, that is only because Aoyama-san is noble-minded enough to permit her interpreter to tease her. I am very fortunate to find myself by your side.”
“What a sly thing to say! Now I can’t possibly argue against you.”
— 22 hours, 35 min ago
“Oh dear. And if I am?”
“Hmph …”
“If I am, that is only because Aoyama-san is noble-minded enough to permit her interpreter to tease her. I am very fortunate to find myself by your side.”
“What a sly thing to say! Now I can’t possibly argue against you.”
Marcia
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“But don’t you agree? Rushing to catch a bus or a train, rushing from one attraction to the next—that kind of ‘touring’ is just moving around, not ‘traveling.’”
“Then how would you define traveling?”
“Traveling is living in a foreign place.”
— Mar 11, 2026 11:50AM
“Then how would you define traveling?”
“Traveling is living in a foreign place.”
Marcia
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“When I first arrived on the Island, my assigned interpreter was Mishima-san from Taichū City Hall. I wonder, I-san, if it had been Mishima-san here with me today, would the school have asked him to ‘go home’?”
“Of course not,” I-san said, his confusion sincere. “But Mishima-san is a city employee.”
Am I the one missing something here?
— Mar 11, 2026 11:44AM
“Of course not,” I-san said, his confusion sincere. “But Mishima-san is a city employee.”
Am I the one missing something here?
